Improvement in dutch ovens



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No 130,444. Patnted Aug. 13,1872.

Witnesses: Inven/Ym;

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CHARLES SOHNEIDT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUTCH OVENS.

To whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES Sonnnrnr, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dutch Ovens for Grated Fire- Places; and I do declare that the following is a true andaccurate description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon and being a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of a grate with my oven in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the interior of the oven with the supporting grating in place. Fig. 3 shows in perspective the grate-spring under the oven. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bake-pan. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the grating.

Like letters refer to like parts in each figure.

The nature of this invention relates to a Dutch oven so constructed that it can be used for baking purposes over the basket of an ordinary coal-grate; and it consists in the peculiar construction of the oven with a spring under the front edge to engage with the upper bar of the grate-basket.

In the drawing, A represents a chimneybreast, and B the bars of a basket-grate sus pended in the opening of the breast. O is a Dutchoven, about which there is nothing new, it being of such size and shape that, when its bottom rests on the top bar of the grate, it will cover the opening in the breast above the grate or fire-place, like an ordinary blower. To the under side of the oven, however, I make an addition in the form ofa spring, a, of sheet metal, which I rivet thereto, near the front edge, as seen in Fig. 3, the office of said spring, when forced down behind the top bar of the grate, being to press the face of the oven against the breast. D is a grating, set in the bottom of the oven to support a bake-pan, E, therein above the bottom, so as not to apply an undue degree of heat to its contents, which are designed to be cooked by the radiant heat of the flame passing up the flue, which method of roasting is deemed by many to be far preferable to a close oven. Any vapors or odors thrown off in cooking are carried up the line by the draft.

The entire apparatus is inexpensive, as readily applied as a common blower, and takes up but little room when not in use.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The oven 0, when provided with the spring a or its equivalent, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES SGHNEIDT.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Lorz, EMILE WAGNER. 

